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====Films==== * In the [[television film]] ''[[Rough Riders (miniseries)|Rough Riders]]'' (1997), Hearst (played by [[George Hamilton (actor)|George Hamilton]]) is depicted as traveling to Cuba with a small band of journalists, to personally cover the [[Spanish–American War]]. * Hearst is mentioned in the Disney movie ''[[Newsies]]'' (1992), directed by [[Kenny Ortega]], which depicts the Newsboys' Strike of 1899. Hearst is never seen onscreen but is referenced by several of the newsies in various musical numbers, and is portrayed as an antagonist engaged in a bitter circulation war with [[Joseph Pulitzer]]. * In the [[HBO]] movie ''[[Winchell (film)|Winchell]]'' (1998), [[Kevin Tighe]] played Hearst. * In ''[[RKO 281]]''(1999), Hearst was played by [[James Cromwell]]. * ''[[The Cat's Meow]]'' (2001), a fictitious version of the death of [[Thomas H. Ince]], takes place in November 1924, on a weekend cruise aboard Hearst's [[USS Oneida (SP-432)|yacht]], celebrating Ince's 44th birthday. The film's fictionalizes Ince's death by suggesting that Hearst shot Ince and covered it up.<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 28, 2002|title=Hollywood Confidential|url=http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2020/06/hollywood-confidential/|website=[[Jonathan Rosenbaum]]|language=en-US|access-date=September 12, 2020|archive-date=September 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923005422/http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2020/06/hollywood-confidential/|url-status=live}}</ref> Hearst is portrayed by [[Edward Herrmann]]. (Ince actually became severely ill aboard Hearst's private yacht, and the official cause of the filmmaker's death was heart failure.<ref name="Taves">{{cite book |last1=Taves |first1=Brian.|title=Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Producer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H1BRDjArx64C |access-date=January 10, 2016 |date=2012 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-3423-9}} Taves' extensive biography contains a strong rebuttal to the much rumored murder of Thomas Ince; see pp. 1–13.</ref>) * He was portrayed by [[Matthew Marsh (actor)|Matthew Marsh]] in [[Agnieszka Holland]]'s 2019 film ''[[Mr Jones (2019 film)|Mr Jones]]''. * He was portrayed by [[Charles Dance]] in [[David Fincher]]'s 2020 film ''[[Mank]]''. * He was portrayed by [[Pat Skipper]] in [[Damien Chazelle]]'s 2022 film ''[[Babylon (2022 film)|Babylon]]''.
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